{"id":6248,"date":"2026-07-28T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:38:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:38:57","slug":"peru-celebrates-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6248","title":{"rendered":"Peru Celebrates Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24829\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24829\" class=\"wp-image-24829\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Peru-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"125\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Peru<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Peru celebrates Independence Day<\/strong>. It gained its freedom from Spain in 1821. Lima is the capital of this South American country. Its area is a bit smaller than the area of Alaska, and natural resources include silver, gold, copper, and petroleum. Almost 30 million people live and work there. Idea: The Incas once controlled portions of what is now Peru. Children could find out more about the Incas and the Spanish conquistadors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peru celebrates Independence Day. It gained its freedom from Spain in 1821. Lima is the capital of this South American country. Its area is a bit smaller than the area of Alaska, and natural resources include silver, gold, copper, and petroleum. Almost 30 million people live and work there. Idea: The Incas once controlled portions <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6248' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5434,253,5292,1780,894,607,734],"class_list":["post-6248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5434","tag-independence-day","tag-july-28","tag-lima","tag-peru","tag-south-america","tag-spain","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30122,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions\/30122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}